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such another force as we had in the time of Agis,1 when the Spartans took the field together and
Achaeans and men of Elis were taking
their part in the campaign with ten thousand mercenaries also; when Alexander
was in India,2 according to report, and the whole of
Greece, owing to the traitors in
every city, was dissatisfied with the existing state of things and hoped for
some release from the misfortunes that beset her. In that hour,—for I
need not dwell on other crises,—
1 While Alexander was in the East, Agis the Third of Sparta rose against Macedon with the help of Darius in 333 B.C. In 331 he headed an army raised by various Greek states but was refused the support of Athens, on the advice of Demosthenes. Defeated near Megalopolis by Antipater he was killed in battle （Dio. Sic. 17.48 and Dio. Sic. 17.62）.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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